Can some one tell me how I can insert a "|" (pipe) at the 15th column throughout a file?
examples:
to insert at begining of line i use :g/^/s//\|/
to insert at ene of line i use :g/$/s//\|/
how can i insert at the 15th column position.
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
Hello
I have a unix variable $HDR in a script, which contains header info, and I need to create it as a new line at the top of a data file which is the input $1 in the script.
Paul (4 Replies)
Hello all and thanks in advance!
What I'm looking to do is insert a blank line, anytime the first 9 characters of a given line don't match the first 9 characters of the previous line.
i.e.
Convert the data set
1 45 64 89
1 89 69 235
2 89 234 67
2 56 90... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to insert data into a table from a flat file, the file is having around 25 columns and some 10,000 records.
The columns values are seperated by a space.
Thanks (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I have my log file something like this
(07/29/2009 00:02:24.467) 367518 (07/29/2009 00:02:26.214) 949384011
(07/29/2009 00:02:26.236) 367524 (07/29/2009 00:02:28.207) 949395117
(07/29/2009 00:02:28.240) 337710 (07/29/2009 00:02:30.621) 949400864
I am trying to insert the data... (3 Replies)
Could anyone help me with an efficient(and easy) way to insert data in a file directly(with out using temp file).
example
open the file1.txt
11112222
333333
44444444
and insert something say " 99999 " somewhere inside the file
as
11112222
333 99999 333
44444444 (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a config file (file1) & a data file (file2) :
- The file1 I want to modify : to replace "2nd fields c7? & m7? from the data from file2,
-The below CPU line fields need to fill by file2's 1st colmns correspoding data.
- The below MEM lines to be replaced by... (3 Replies)
please help with the following.
I have 4 col data .. instrument , category, variable and value. the instruments belong to particular categories and they all measure some variables (var1 and var2 in this example), the last column is the value an instrument outputs for a variable.
I have used... (0 Replies)
Hi, I am creating a script using Vi to go out on emails. Each email has is own set of attachments, each with a unique number eg Q12343 and Q67897. I have managed to get the script to put in the first attachment customer number ie Q12343, but can't figure out how to get the second one to come in ie... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Cheryl1234
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)